What’s Your Swine Flu Game Plan?
With swine flu expected to affect one in three people this year, families need to plan ahead. Now’s the time to start thinking about it.
Forbes:
As any working parent knows, a sick child in the family can pose a wrenching workplace dilemma. We’ve all been there: a deadline looming, a spouse with an important meeting planned, and a little one at home with a fever or a stuffy, runny nose.
But with experts predicting a potentially staggering outbreak–a pandemic perhaps–of the H1N1 flu virus this season, it has never been more important for working parents to plan ahead.
For one thing, the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, comes on suddenly, potentially leaving those who have been infected with little time to make arrangements.
“This is not like a cold where you can feel yourself starting to get sick,” warns Dr. Laurie A. Rubenstein, a pediatrician in Redwood City, Calif. “With this virus, you are probably just as sick on day one as you are on day six. You get a fever and chills, and you are glassy-eyed and uncomfortable for six or seven days.”
(Swine flu symptoms are the same as regular flu symptoms: fever, body aches, chills and sore throat with possible vomiting or diarrhea.) Read full article.
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